Red is typically spelling, yeah, and green is grammar. MS Word sees grammar mistakes where there are none a lot of the time, and doesn't have a lot of words in its spellchecker. As long as it's readable, not completely mangled, and makes sense, it should be okay._________________

The occasional small grammatical error won't reflect poorly on the author; we've all made that one stupid little mistake that we didn't catch until too late. What affects your grammar score is an obvious lack of understanding sentence structure and/or English, multiple GPS errors, comma-whoring, that sort of thing.

Uh-oh. I've often been told my sentences are too complex and I use more commas than I should.

Hey, don't knock on comma-whoring. I love commas. And adjectives, and adverbs, and all those things so-called "writing teachers" say are bad.

There's an easy answer to this:

YOU'RE A WHORE.

But I do agree that rules were made to be broken. So long as the commas are in sensible places, even if there are a lot of them, it'll be okay._________________Superstite es non sole;
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will you say if you have contacted the winners? because i would like closure to this contest

Give them time, there's a lot of entries to go through, and it's only one and a bit days since the end of the contest._________________The Elitist Bastard | Writing is the business of professional turd-polishing."(don't take this review too seriously) If you doubt this is possible, how is it there are PYGMIES + DWARFS??"

Well, I got my submission on time, but I've a question: what happens to all the stories that do not win? I know what the top four get; do all the rest just get added to the FF archive?

This is my first time on these forums and I'm trying to get used to all of it still. Simply curious what will happen to the story I wrote (it's the first I've ever publicly dropped for judgment, ever...). I'm hoping that if it doesn't do well, I'll be able to get some feedback on it. Or explain my crazy thought patterns that created it. 'Cause I'm afraid to go back and nit pick it myself, especially since I now distinctly remember that I forgot to add in a tiny, yet semi-crucial, tid-bit....

We won't be doing anything with the pieces that don't win, but personally, I'd encourage everyone to submit it after the fact to the FF archive. There are a lot of entries I've seen that aren't quite good enough to win, but still have a lot of potential._________________

The judges are currently picking the winners and making an overall consesus of winners. Be patient; we've taken the time to read and review your story, give us time to make a list._________________
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